Every Year, the Students at a Prestigious Engineering School Would

question 29

True/False

Every year, the students at a prestigious engineering school would remove a car from the parking lot and place it on the highest point of the roof of the main engineering building. The students have been doing this for decades but not once has anyone ever confided to an outsider how it was done. This is a classical example of a ritual.

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